How to play an animation on a npc when a part is touched

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#1

How to play an animation on a npc when a part is touched?

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#2

You can use part.Touched, so that when the part is touched, an event fires. And you can use Animator:LoadAnimation for the NPC’s animation, for when the event is fired.

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#3

Can you like show it to me in a script because im pretty new

#4

Of course.

local Part = script.Parent -- Doesn't work if the script isn't in the part.
local NPC = script.Parent.Parent.NPC -- Doesn't work if the NPC isn't in the script's parent's parent.
local Animation = script.Parent.Parent.Animation -- Doesn't work if the animation isn't in the script's parent's parent.

Part.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
  local Player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(Hit.Parent)
  -- Trying to see if a player touched our part.

  if Player then
    -- Here's a statement of where if the player DID touch it, the event runs.
    local Anim = NPC.Humanoid.Animator:LoadAnimation(Animation) -- Makes a variable for the animation loader.
    Anim:Play() -- Plays the animation
  end
end)

If you don’t know what parent/child means, I could explain that to you aswell.

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#5

I know what it means lol but thanks

#6

Ima put this as a normal script in the
npc

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#7

Yes, I’m pretty sure load animation works with server scripts too which is good in this case.

Also be sure to change the Part, NPC and animation variables to your part, etc.

#8

Ok yes I did that :grinning: :grinning:

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#9

It should work then, although I didn’t add a debounce (cooldown/wait). How long is your animation? I’ll just make the script but with a cooldown.

#10

In the output says

 Animator is not a valid member of Humanoid "Workspace.Dummy.Humanoid"
#11

Im just using a normal roblox animation to test it
https://www.roblox.com/catalog/5104377791/Hero-Landing

#12

Oh that means there’s no animator in the NPC, which is fine. I guess I’ll try it with the Humanoid, although that might not work cause roblox deprecated it.

local Part = script.Parent -- Doesn't work if the script isn't in the part.
local NPC = script.Parent.Parent.NPC -- Doesn't work if the NPC isn't in the script's parent's parent.
local Animation = script.Parent.Parent.Animation -- Doesn't work if the animation isn't in the script's parent's parent.
local Debounce = false

Part.Touched:Connect(function(Hit)
  local Player = game:GetService("Players"):GetPlayerFromCharacter(Hit.Parent)
  -- Trying to see if a player touched our part.

  if Player and Debounce == false then
    Debounce = true
    -- Here's a statement of where if the player DID touch it, the event runs.
    local Anim = NPC.Humanoid:LoadAnimation(Animation) -- Makes a variable for the animation loader.
    Anim:Play() -- Plays the animation
    wait(4) -- Wait 4
    Debounce = false
  end
end)
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